That’s interesting. Hawaii is such a place of opposites. The tourist industry is practically wrecked because it has the worst restrictions of all the states. But the tourist industry is digusting and corrupt and has ruined the islands. In the early 1900s there was so much diversity in agriculture they exported food including oranges and rice to CA. They grew cotton, had a cotton mill, made cotton clothing and mattresses. Big dairy industry. Grew basically almost all their own food.
Yeah but back then overproduction of sugar cane and pineapple was wrecking the soil and had led to a feudal system of big haole landowners ruling over estates filled with Chinese and Japanese immigrants, largely leaving the native Polynesian Hawaiians in the lurch.